Most schoolchildren can recite the rhyme “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” But when he arrived in the Americas what did he find, really?…
This week I am recycling a favourite previous post. It seemed a fitting analogy while we ride out this storm called the third wave. The…
As part of my self care goals for this year, I thought it would be a good idea to download an app that promised to…
I myself, am not longheaded. At all. Okay, well, rarely anyway. We all get lucky sometimes. Longheaded is a term of Irish origin meaning to…
I didn’t know of — hadn’t even heard of, the Jim Crow Laws until I stumbled across the audio version of Richard Wright’s Black Boy….
With apologies to Game of Thrones fans, I confess to losing interest in the series after four seasons. The story became too convoluted, too much…
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. Or so the saying goes, but often we don’t get to hear from both sides of the…
As part of the newspaper publishing tradition, puzzles, amusements and comics are usually found on the final pages. There is a reason for this; in…
It is springtime. The end of dealing with snow and cold for a while. And the end of winter driving. Where I live, the winters…
Plastic straws have been in the news lately as people and corporations endeavour to reduce single use plastic items. Straws are a great starting point;…